range

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English [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From Middle English rengen, from Old French renger (“range, rank, order, array”), from rang (“a rank, row”), from Old High German hring, hrinc, Middle High German rinc (“a ring”).

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Noun [edit]

range (plural ranges)

  1. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
  2. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
      Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fornaces all burning bright;
    • L'Estrange
      He was bid at his first coming to take off the range, and let down the cinders.
  3. Selection, array.
    We sell a wide range of cars.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, Internal Combustion[1]:
      But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
  4. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
  5. An area for military training or equipment testing.
  6. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
    We could see the ship at a range of five miles.
    One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.
  7. Maximum range of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
    This missile's range is 500 kilometres.
  8. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
  9. Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
    • Alexander Pope
      Far as creation's ample range extends.
    • Bishop Fell
      The range and compass of Hammond's knowledge filled the whole circle of the arts.
    • Addison
      A man has not enough range of thought.
  10. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
  11. (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
  12. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
    Jones has good range for a big man.
  13. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
  14. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
  15. (programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
    std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range.
  16. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
    • Sir M. Hale
      The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences.
  17. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarendon to this entry?)
  18. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
  19. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
    • South
      He may take a range all the world over.
  20. (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.

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  • (values a function can obtain): domain

Holonyms [edit]

  • (values a function can obtain): codomain

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Translations [edit]

line of mountains
large stove with many hotplates
selection, array
area for practicing shooting
area for military training or equipment testing
distance to the object
maximum reach of capability
area of open, often unfenced, grazing land
math: set of values of a function
statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation
baseball: defensive area covered by a player
music
ecology
programming: sequential list of iterators
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Verb [edit]

range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)

  1. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.]
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th-19th c.]
    • 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.40:
      The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.
  3. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 22
      At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
    • 1910, Saki, ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia:
      In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby Mrs. Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.
  4. (intransitive) (mathematics, computing; followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range
    The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
  5. (transitive) to classify
  6. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.

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Etymology [edit]

Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century.

Adjective [edit]

range

  1. strict

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Verb [edit]

range

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ranger
  2. third-person singular present indicative of ranger
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
  5. second-person singular imperative of ranger

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